Fewer visits per person served than 76% of British Columbia’s town libraries: Surrey Public Library counts 3.4
Surrey Public Library serves the whole of Surrey, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 703,615 people, Brownsville among them. These 2025 figures are what the library reported to British Columbia’s public library statistics.
C+Civic life#208 of 254 in British ColumbiaWhat Brownsville’s civic life grade weighs
With a C+, Brownsville ranks #208 of 254 British Columbia towns on civic life. Brownsville has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
697 registered charities give a Surrey mailing address
There is no count for Brownsville on its own: the charities are those of all of Surrey. It works out to 1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical British Columbia town has 1.2 and Canada’s 1.4. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
36.9%
The whole province shares one estimate: 36.9% of people in British Columbia volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.2% and 38.7%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of British Columbia’s town libraries on all 2 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 32 town libraries in British Columbia’s statistics for 2025.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 6,587 visits on an average day
The year 2025 at Surrey Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 2.9 km from Brownsville
In order of distance from the centre of Brownsville, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Brownsville
Does Brownsville have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Brownsville, and the nearest one is FVRL: George Mackie Library in Delta.
How busy is Surrey Public Library?
It counted 2,404,116 in-person visits in 2025.
Library statistics: BC Public Libraries Statistics, 2025. Library locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Statistics Canada, Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (2020). Charities: Canada Revenue Agency, List of charities (2024), charitable organizations only.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).